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Undergraduate Students

•  School of Information Research Experience for Undergraduates
University of Michigan (Lead), Wayne State University
The University of Michigan School of Information Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program provides a diverse group of promising students w ... read more

• CenUSA Bioenergy Undergraduate Research Internship Experience
Iowa State University (Lead), Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Purdue University, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The summer 2013 CenUSA Bioenergy Research Internship Experience for Undergraduates will provide rich interdisciplinary training and engagement opportu ... read more

• College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) Summer Research Initiative (SRI)
University of Maryland, College Park (Lead)
The Summer Research Initiative (SRI) was created in 1999 by the Office of the Dean in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) and is supp ... read more

• Explore It! Building the Next Generation of Sustainable Energy Researchers
University of Maine
As the leader in the development of New England's forest-related products and economy, the University of Maine (UMaine) is uniquely positioned to con ... read more

• NOAA-NGI Diversity Internship Program
Dauphin Island Sea Lab (Lead), NOAA, Northern Gulf Institute (NGI)
The NOAA-NGI Diversity Internship Program Internship Program provides an exciting scientific educational opportunity for undergraduate and graduate st ... read more

• NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates: From Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake
University of Nevada, Reno (Lead), The Great Basin Institute
<p>The Academy for the Environment, facilitating student involvement in environmental research and education at University of Nevada, Reno, and ... read more

• Operation ETank REU: Moving toward a Sustainable World
Northern Illinois University
The research focus of the NIU REU program, Operation ETank, is in areas of energy and the environment, with aspects of ethics and economy (the 4 Es) i ... read more

• REU Site: Coastal Research in Environmental Science and Technology (CREST)
University of Massachusetts, Boston
The "Coastal Research in Environmental Science and Technology (CREST)" program at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston) is a ... read more

• REU Summer Academy in Sustainable Bioenergy
Kansas State University
Program Overview <p>Research activities in this program under the guidance of faculty mentors, will advance students' state of knowledge in sus ... read more

• Risk Analysis for Introduced Species and Genotypes IGERT REU
University of Minnesota (Lead)
This NSF-funded research experience is designed to familiarize undergraduates with the ecological risk accompanying introduced species and genotypes. ... read more

• Santa Fe Institute Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Santa Fe Institute
21st century scientists increasingly rely on computational models and strategies. The social sciences in particular are benefitting from new modeling ... read more

• Summer Research Experience- NSF Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences
University of Miami
<p>The University of Miami, the Southeast's largest private research university, is located in sunny and lush Coral Gables, Florida. This summer ... read more

• Summer Research Institute at the Florida Mental Health Institute (SRI@FMHI)
University of South Florida (Lead)
The Summer Research Institute (SRI@FMHI) is designed for students interested in building research skills within the context of mental health to help t ... read more

• The Survey Research Center Summer Internship Program
University of Michigan
The SRC Summer Internship Program is a 10 week, 20 - 40 hour per week paid position for students with an interest in social science research. Interns ... read more


Post-Baccalaureate

• The Survey Research Center Summer Internship Program
University of Michigan
The SRC Summer Internship Program is a 10 week, 20 - 40 hour per week paid position for students with an interest in social science research. Interns ... read more


Graduate Students

• Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: NIFA Fellowships Grant Program
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (Lead)
The Department of Agriculture established the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) under which the Secretary of Agriculture may make compet ... read more

• An Integrated Program on Development and Inequality in the Global South
Brown University
GPD seeks to promote social science research on processes of social, political and economic transformation in the developing world with a special focu ... read more

• Applied Biodiversity Science IGERT
Texas A&M University
The Applied Biodiversity Science (ABS) NSF-IGERT Program at Texas A&M University was founded in the fall of 2007 with a grant from the National Sc ... read more

• Atlantic Coast Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Alliance
Howard University, University of Florida, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Miami, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Goals of the AC-SBE Alliance are to increase the number of Underrepresented Minority (URM) students receiving Ph.D.’s in SBE disciplines and ... read more

• Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development IGERT
University of Wisconsin, Madison
A collaborative research program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to: Expand scientific understanding of the ... read more

• Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
An interdisciplinary approach to graduate education designed to train U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineeers for leadership roles in the clean energy se ... read more

• CUNY MAA (the CUNY-Michigan SBE AGEP Alliance)
City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center (Lead), Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Wayne State University
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the Lead Institution in two AGEP alliances that partners with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Polyte ... read more

• Evalutating Resilience of Ecological and Social Systems in Changing Landscapes IGERT
Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), University of Idaho
The University of Idaho (UI) in collaboration with the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), in Costa Rica has establish ... read more

• Fall 2013 EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is offering Graduate Fellowships for master& ... read more

• Food Systems and Poverty Reduction
Cornell University (Lead)
An interdisciplinary, two year graduate training program that addresses the challenges faced by the 1.2 billion poorest people on the planet who live ... read more

• Global Traineeship in Sustainable Electronics
Purdue University (Lead), Tuskegee University
This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award establishes a new integrative model for graduate research and education to ... read more

• Great Lakes Alliances for the Social and Behavioral Sciences (GLASS)
Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Temple University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin, Madison
AGEP (Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) is a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation designed with a two-fold purpos ... read more

• INSPIRE: Information Security and Privacy: An Interdisciplinary, Research and Education Program
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the development of a graduate training program in information securit ... read more

• Integrated Graduate Education in Biorefining and Biofuels IGERT
Colorado State University, Colorado State University, Pueblo
The NSF IGERT Program in Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Bioenergy (MAS BioEnergy) is designed to prepare PhD graduates who are trained as ... read more

• I-STAR Bioenergy IGERT
Kansas State University (Lead)
Biofuels and biobased products can substantially improve environmental quality, rural economies, and national security. Realizing this opportunity wi ... read more

• Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic (MESAS) IGERT
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
MESAS is an interdisciplinary NSF-funded Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program that incorporates social and natural ... read more

• Natural-Human Systems in the Urbanizing Tropics IGERT
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
The novel feature of the research theme is the focus on interactions between human and natural systems in the urbanizing tropics, rather than the more ... read more

• NOAA-NGI Diversity Internship Program
Dauphin Island Sea Lab (Lead), NOAA, Northern Gulf Institute (NGI)
The NOAA-NGI Diversity Internship Program Internship Program provides an exciting scientific educational opportunity for undergraduate and graduate st ... read more

• Phillips Exeter Academy Dissertation Year Fellowship
Phillips Exeter Academy (Lead)
Phillips Exeter Academy seeks to support the academic and career development of doctoral students, and promote diversity and lively intellectual excha ... read more

• Politics, Economics, Psychology and Public Policy (PEPPP)
University of California, Berkeley
The UC Berkeley IGERT program in Politics, Economics, Psychology, and Public Policy (PEPPP) is an inter-disciplinary graduate fellowship program anima ... read more

• Population and Environment IGERT
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Resiliance and Adaptation Program
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Questions of sustainability for Alaska and the Circumpolar North are the focus of RAP, exploring this topic through an investigation of global-local i ... read more

• Sensor Science, Engineering, and Informatics IGERT
University of Maine
The Sensor Science Engineering and Informatics (SSEI) IGERT program is a PhD training program in the multidisciplinary area of sensor systems: ranging ... read more

• Sustainable Energy from Solar Hydrogen IGERT
University of Delaware
The NSF-sponsored Sustainable Energy from Solar Hydrogen IGERT program at the University of Delaware focuses on developing new approaches to sustainab ... read more

• Sustainable Energy Recovery from the Earth
Cornell University (Lead)
<p>Among challenges for the 21st century, two of the biggest and broadest are energy and the environment. What are the means by which we will in ... read more

• The Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program
International Research & Exchanges Board
The Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program brings emerging leaders in key professional fields from Eurasia to the United States for one to two y ... read more

• The IGERT in Climate Change, Water and Society (CCWAS)
University of California, Davis (Lead), Colorado School of Mines
Climate change and related water problems pose some of the most formidable challenges to science and society today. The IGERT in Climate Change, Water ... read more

• The Solar Economy (SEIGERT)
Purdue University (Lead), Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Sandia National Laboratories, University of Delaware, University of Texas, El Paso
This IGERT program supports the development of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional graduate training program of education and research in sustain ... read more

• The Survey Research Center Summer Internship Program
University of Michigan
The SRC Summer Internship Program is a 10 week, 20 - 40 hour per week paid position for students with an interest in social science research. Interns ... read more

• Training Innovative Leaders in Biofabrication
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award establishes a unique training program at WPI for Ph.D. students in the fiel ... read more

• Vulnerability and Sustainability in Coupled Human-Natural Systems IGERT
University of Wisconsin, Madison
The CHANGE program involves faculty members in departments ranging across atmospheric and oceanic sciences, ecology, environmental studies, veterinary ... read more

• Water in the Urban Environment IGERT
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
This NSF-sponsored Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program supports establishment of a multidisciplinary PhD program i ... read more

• Water SENSE - Water Social, Engineering, and Natural Sciences Engagement
University of California, Riverside
This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports inter-disciplinary graduate training in research that can improve ... read more

• Young Scientists Summer Program
International Instute for Applied Systems Analysis, National Science Foundation (NSF)
IIASA's annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) in Laxenburg, Austria offers research opportunities to talented young researchers (1-2 y ... read more


Postdoc & Early Career

• Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: NIFA Fellowships Grant Program
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (Lead)
The Department of Agriculture established the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) under which the Secretary of Agriculture may make compet ... read more

• Early Career Fellowship Program
Center for Ocean Solutions
The Center for Ocean Solutions (“COS”) seeks up to five early career natural, social, and physical science fellows to join COS researche ... read more

• NSF Post Doctoral project in Climate Change, Hydrology, and Landscapes of America's Heartland: A Coupled Natural Human System
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (Lead)
<p>Post-Doctoral Fellow in Agent-Based Modeling and GIS. A post-doctoral research position is available at Southern Illinois University Carbond ... read more

• Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship
Santa Fe Institute (Lead)
The Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute offers you: <br>-unparalleled intellectual freedom <br>-transdisciplinary ... read more

• Postdoctoral Training Program in the Science of Aging
Rand Corporation
The RAND Postdoctoral Training Program in the Study of Aging enables outstanding junior scholars in demographic and aging research to sharpen their an ... read more

• Post-Graduate Fellowship for Recent PHD and MD Researchers
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Advancing the Science of Health Measurement through Innovation, Education, and Collaboration - The Post-Graduate Fellowship program is for recent Ph ... read more

• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
University of Michigan (Lead), University of California System
Beginning in 2011, the University of Michigan joins in a collaborative partnership with the University of California to offer postdoctoral fellowship ... read more

• Research Fellow in Agricultural Economics
Auburn University
A Research Fellow (level I/II/III) in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (DAERS) of the College of Agricu ... read more

• SBS Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Ohio State University (Lead)
The Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State Univers ... read more

• Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
National Academy of Education (Lead)
The NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports early-career scholars working in critical areas of educational scholarship. Fellows will rec ... read more


Research Centers

• Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST)
University of California, Berkeley (Lead), Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Mills College, San Jose State University, Smith College, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University
The TRUST Research Experiences for Undergraduates (TRUST-REU) in Cyber Security and Trustworthy Systems, was established to promote access to graduate ... read more

• The Children of Immigrants in Schools
State University of New York (SUNY), Albany (Lead), Harvard University, New York University, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), University of California, Santa Cruz, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Amsterdam, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, University of Goteborg, University of Oxford
"The Children of Immigrants in Schools" is a three-year research and fellowship program designed to improve our understanding of the role of ... read more



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